- Joined
- Oct 8, 2015
The sub didn't start out as political. When it was created around 2013 it was just for fans of MillionDollarExtreme videos to come and talk about the comedy. People forget old MDE comedy was fairly apolitical. People quoted memes and joked around.
This is what it was like back in 2014. Repeating jokes from the videos, little threads discussing them and weirdos that were on occasion funny. It was a place on reddit that didn't feel like reddit at all. That's what made it so great. Lots of social rejects and creative types including the animator pilotredsun posted there. You could have someone posting about a game they were making, electronic music album they released or a triple irony layered essay about the dystopian future of America all posted in a day. It was great. The modding was very laxed unlike virtually all of the rest of reddit which allowed people to be creative. It remained pretty apolitical until around late 2016 early 2017.
As Sam jumped into the political twitter shitfest during the 2016 election the sub attracted people who had never heard of MDE but agreed with his politics. This was fine at first but eventually the people who came to talk about MDE comedy were outnumbered 10 to 1 by the people who wanted to post about the jews and hating black people. People came from different banned subreddits because /r/mde was a comedy sub and was a safe haven. The older userbase started to leave and it became an unfunny cesspit of recycled /pol/ garbage. You started having JEWKILLER9001 types unironically fedposting and the mods never had any real direction on what to do aside from removing fedposts. It became the edgy shithole you mention in your post. Day in day out the same threads with no real humor to them at all. Just angry political crap.
It got so bad that Sam who could give less of a fuck about Reddit and had his handlers deal with it as a more of a promotional tool for the group then anything came into the sub and made a thread about what to do.
Old users pointed out politics were ruining the place and Sam talked about a no politics rule. This went nowhere because the rule was never implemented and the new population had nowhere else to shitpost. The sub got banned in that huge "hate speech" ban sweep in the fall of 2018. In my opinion it was a mercy kill and I was actually happy when it was removed. There was zero discussion of the comedy and just /pol/ trash. In the end what made the sub so incredibly fun (the lack of modding) ended up killing it.
By far the funniest thing the sub ever did was make a thread about Charls claiming he was an autistic boy who wanted to be a famous drummer and reddit completely fell for the wholesomeness shit and it made the reddit frontpage with 17.5k upvotes.
